Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:14 PM 11/28/1999 -0800, Roy Feldman wrote: >The quote everyone remembers from Walker Evans is "Color-photography is >vulgar"; the part that is seldom quoted is his follow up line:"When the >point of a picture is precisely its vulgarity or its color-accident >through man's hand, not God's, then only can color film be used validly." We're supposed to listen to a guy who never had a chance to really shoot color with the materials we have today? How about Sam Abell, or Bill Allard, or Alex Webb, or Eli Reed, or Jodi Cobb, or Ernst Haas, or Jim Stanfield, or Cole Weston, or Jim Brandenburg, or any other photographer who has proven Walker Evans wrong with their work? Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.